Method of covering paper or wooden boxes



0. W. TRILSCH.

' METHOD OF COVERING PAPER 0R WOODEN BOXES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 23. 1921.

1,386,384. Patented Aug. 2,1921. 59- z INVENTOR.

UNITED STATE lillENT OFFICE.

OSCAR WM. TRILSOI-I, OF \VEITESTONE, NEW YORK. ASSIGNOR- T0 OSCAR TRILSCH 00., OF YVHITESTONE, NEW YORK.

METHOD OF COVERING PAPER OR WOODEN BOXES.

Application filed. May 23, 1921.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Oscar: WM. TnILsorI, -itizen of the United States and resident of lVhitestone, in the count-y of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and usetiul Improvements in Methods Qovering .l aper or VYooden Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved method of rovering paper or wooden boxes, and has for its object the provision of a simple and inexpensive method of applying and afiixing to the outside of paper or wooden boxes, a covering of velvet, satin, or other similar material.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 shows a blank A such as usually used to make the paper boxes. This blank is usually scored on the lines a and bent up on these lines into a box shape.

Fig. 2, shows a sample blank B of the covering material which may be velvet, satin, felt, or even leatherette, paper or other similar materials.

Fig. 3 shows one of these blanks bent up and entirely covered or wrapped with a paper covering turned over the top edges of the box inwardly and down against the inner walls thereof. This method may be used when a cheap grade of velvet is used and in such cases the paper covering of the box would be made the same color as the velvet in order to sustain its color tone and to reinforce the box.

Fig. 4 shows another method of bending up and holding the blank in shape of a box by what is called corner staying which consists in applying a piece of tough paper 7) coated with adhesive to each corner as shown.

Fig. 5 shows still another method in which the blank is bent up and then a strip of tough paper a wound completely around the sides and lapped as at d.

Fig. 6 shows the box with the covering material folded up against the sides.

Fig. 7 shows the excess covering material being clipped ofi one corner by means of a shears.

Fig. 8 shows the upstanding edges of covering material above one corner being clipped oli by means of ashears.

Fig. 9 shows the box covered on the outside with the upstanding edges ready to Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 2, 1921.

Serial No. 471,815.

turn inwardly and downwardly into and against the inside of the box.

10 shows a completely covered and finished box.

No claim is made for invention of any of these style boxes they are just merely illustrated to show some of the kinds of boxes that may be covered by my method. In practice this blank oi covering material is coated with adhesive on one side and a box as described centered upon the blank on the side coated with adhesive. The edges of the coated velvet blank which extend beyond the bottom of the box are then folded up against the sides of the box as at e pressed firmly thereto to cause them to 3(- here, when this has been done the box will appear as in Fig. 6.

The next stop in the method is shown in Fig. 7 and consists in cutting off with a shears the excess covering material f at each corner. The action of the shears when making this out is to press the coated sides of the covering material firmly together and make a perfectly straight corner.

After this is done the upstanding edges of the covering material which extend above the sides of the box can be turned inwardly and down into the box against the inner walls, completing the covering of the box. However, in order to provide for the thickness of the box itself a better result is produced by clipping oil? the corners y of the upstanding edges of the covering material which extend above the corners of the box as shown in Fig. 8. When this has been done the box with its bottom and sides covered and with its upstanding edges 72. of covering material, with the corners clipped will appear as shown in Fig. 9.

The next operation is to turn these edges of covering material with the clipped corners inwardly and down against the inner walls of the box to make a completely covered and finished box as shown in Fig. 10. Clipping the corners as described makes it possible to make a neat inner corner in the box.

Heretofore velvet covered boxes have always been'made' by covering the sides with a strip of covering material extending completely around the box and either buttjoined or lapped. The strip being made wider than the height of the side of the box,

the portion of the strip extending above the top edges of the box being folded inwardly and down against the inner walls of the box and the portion of the strip extending below the bottom of the box being turned over the bottom edge and against the bottom of the box. This leaves the bottom unfinished and requires that an extra bot-tom piece, usually termed a button, which consists of a piece of cardboard or similar material covered with velvet with the edges turned over the back be used to cover up this unfinished bottom by afiixing it thereto with adhesive. It will therefore be seen that my method of covering a box entirely eliminates the use of this so called button which saves the labor involved in making thispart. Besides the edges of the box do not make as good an appearance as when the velvet is turned directly over the edge from the bottom to the sides in one piece. It has another distinct advantage in that it saves about twenty-five per cent. of the covering material required to cover the box.

My improved method of covering boxes as described therefore makes possible a saving of at least twenty-five per cent. of the covering material and at least one-third of the labor required by any methods heretofore used.

lVhat I claim is 1. The method herein described of covering boxes, starting with a rectangular blank of covering material, coated with adhesive, centering the box upon said blank, folding covering blank up against the sides of said box, shearing off at each corner the surplus covering material and turning the upstanding edges inwardly and down into and against the inner surface of the sides of said box.

2. The method herein described of covering boxes,starting witha rectangular blank of covering material, coated with adhesive, centering the box upon said blank, folding the remainder ofsaid blank up against the sides of said box with suflicient pressure to cause sides of said blank to adhere to said box, shearing of? the surplus covering material at each corner, and. further, clipping the upstanding edges above each corner of said box so that the upstanding edge of said blank is in each case shorter than the adj acent side of the box, then folding the said upstanding edges inwardly and down against the inside of the box.

3. The method herein described of covering boxes starting with apiece of covering material coated with adhesive, placing the box upon said piece, folding the coveringmaterial projecting around the box, up against the sides of said box with sufficient pressure to .cause'said covering material to adhere to said box, shearing oil the surplus covering material at each corner, and further, clipping the upstanding edges aboveeach corner of said box so that the upstanding edge of said piece is in each case shorter than the adjacent side of the box, then folding the upstanding edges inwardly .and down against the inside of the box.

Signed. at Whitestone in the county of Queens and State of New Yorln OSCAR WVM. TRILSCH. 

